Specifically, the suspect was charged with two counts of “unauthorised modification of data to cause impairment,” and one count of “unauthorised access to, or modification of, restricted data.” Authorities believe that Flannery set up some type of remote and hidden access to a government website that the AFP did not specify, although they did say it was not an Australian federal site.

Collectively, these offenses carry a maximum penalty of 22 years in prison. Flannery is scheduled to appear in Woy Woy Local Court on May 15, 2013.

Federal authorities allege that because of Flannery's job, he had access to sensitive government information. Flannery’s former employer, Content Security, said that he had no such access.

"Flannery did not and does not have access to any customer information that was or could have been used to carry out any malicious activity or compromise systems," Content Security said in a statement to the Herald.

I may or may not of "known" this guy, he may or may not have bragged about having an employee login for Road Runner / Time Warner Cable, which he would regularly use to "dox" people by just looking up account information and screencapping customer info pages, and then proceeding to stalk them.

He also may or may not of bragged about ruining the credit of various celebrities after stealing their information.

This is all pre-2010 though.

Also the origin of his name, particularly the 0, is because he originated from the game hacking/griefing group myg0t, where they all had names with that formula.

There's some very impressionable people here, it seems. A man is charged with something and arrested, and the presumption of guilt seems to be very apparent.

Even more distressing is the fact that companies, such as "Content Security," fire people simply because they're arrested regardless of conviction. The arrest follows an accusation, but is not proof of guilt.

This guy may be guilty, but I am disgusted when someone is arrested on serious charges and mob mentality quickly becomes the consensus.

There's some very impressionable people here, it seems. A man is charged with something and arrested, and the presumption of guilt seems to be very apparent.

Even more distressing is the fact that companies, such as "Content Security," fire people simply because they're arrested regardless of conviction. The arrest follows an accusation, but is not proof of guilt.

This guy may be guilty, but I am disgusted when someone is arrested on serious charges and mob mentality quickly becomes the consensus.

There's some very impressionable people here, it seems. A man is charged with something and arrested, and the presumption of guilt seems to be very apparent.

Even more distressing is the fact that companies, such as "Content Security," fire people simply because they're arrested regardless of conviction. The arrest follows an accusation, but is not proof of guilt.

This guy may be guilty, but I am disgusted when someone is arrested on serious charges and mob mentality quickly becomes the consensus.

Well, when it comes to crimes done "with a computer", it seems you're presumed guilty until proven otherwise!

There's some very impressionable people here, it seems. A man is charged with something and arrested, and the presumption of guilt seems to be very apparent.

Even more distressing is the fact that companies, such as "Content Security," fire people simply because they're arrested regardless of conviction. The arrest follows an accusation, but is not proof of guilt.

This guy may be guilty, but I am disgusted when someone is arrested on serious charges and mob mentality quickly becomes the consensus.

Well, when it comes to crimes done "with a computer", it seems you're presumed guilty until proven otherwise!

If only he'd thought to incorporate himself as a bank, he'd have been impervious.

There's some very impressionable people here, it seems. A man is charged with something and arrested, and the presumption of guilt seems to be very apparent.

Even more distressing is the fact that companies, such as "Content Security," fire people simply because they're arrested regardless of conviction. The arrest follows an accusation, but is not proof of guilt.

This guy may be guilty, but I am disgusted when someone is arrested on serious charges and mob mentality quickly becomes the consensus.

the court of public opinion is rarely just or reasonable.

And in such a court knowing enough to defend against the charges is necessarily suspicious. The first "Blackadder" series memorably covered this:

Witchsmeller: (opening his Bible) The Ten Commandments of (Jeremoth?), in theAppendix to the Apocrypha: "And the Lord said unto the childrenof (Bedinibott?), `Neither shalt thou eat the fruit of the treethat is known as the Carrot Tree'."Baldrick: Carrots don't grow on trees!Witchsmeller: Oh really? And how did you get to know so much about carrots,eh?(The crowd laughs)Witchsmeller: WITCH!(The crowd gasps)

There's some very impressionable people here, it seems. A man is charged with something and arrested, and the presumption of guilt seems to be very apparent.

Even more distressing is the fact that companies, such as "Content Security," fire people simply because they're arrested regardless of conviction. The arrest follows an accusation, but is not proof of guilt.

This guy may be guilty, but I am disgusted when someone is arrested on serious charges and mob mentality quickly becomes the consensus.

Companies view their employees as an extention of their image. It sort of looks bad when an employee ends up arrested, regardless of guilt/innocence. They figure the employee just isn't worth the trouble to keep around if they end up with those sorts of circumstances hovering over them. Plus, as another poster said, court of public opinion is harsh, so a company may not like the "guilt by association" that employee may bring. They cut'em loose. Don't want to deal with those kinds of problems.

Australia has a number of towns with double names all derived from Aboriginal languages. Some of them repeat a word to emphasise the size. Woy Woy meaning big lake or lagoon. Wagga Wagga is another example.

There's some very impressionable people here, it seems. A man is charged with something and arrested, and the presumption of guilt seems to be very apparent.

Even more distressing is the fact that companies, such as "Content Security," fire people simply because they're arrested regardless of conviction. The arrest follows an accusation, but is not proof of guilt.

This guy may be guilty, but I am disgusted when someone is arrested on serious charges and mob mentality quickly becomes the consensus.

Australia has a number of towns with double names all derived from Aboriginal languages. Some of them repeat a word to emphasise the size. Woy Woy meaning big lake or lagoon. Wagga Wagga is another example.

Its handily located for a fuel stop when heading to/from Brisbane if you didn't stop in Kyogle or came up via Clarence Valley way. Great motorbike roads around there. Possibly riding through again in about a month.

This happened 5 years ago but he was never apprehended. He's continually harassed me over the years on AIM and Twitter, in fact, I'm the only person he follows on Twitter to this day - http://twitter.com/aush0k

This happened 5 years ago but he was never apprehended. He's continually harassed me over the years on AIM and Twitter, in fact, I'm the only person he follows on Twitter to this day - http://twitter.com/aush0k